Sentences with phrase «pollution limits»

The same is true when new air pollution limits take effect.

At its worst it can help create seven more days a year when ozone levels exceed air pollution limits.

We have developed historic fuel efficiency standards that will limit greenhouse gas emissions from our vehicles for the first time in history, made unprecedented investments in clean energy, and proposed the first - ever carbon pollution limits for new fossil - fuel - fired power plants.

The Green Party says that London has been breaking European air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide since 2010.

The list comes ahead of next week's expected carbon pollution limits on new plants, to be proposed by the U.S.

Because of these trends, analysts expect the power sector to be well - positioned to meet the Clean Power Plan's carbon pollution limits in 2022 and beyond.

The mayor said: «Every child deserves the right to breathe clean air in London and it is a shameful fact that more than 360 of our primary schools are in areas breaching legal pollution limits.»

Many cities around the globe already exceed the air pollution limits established by the World Health Organization.

But the House of Commons» Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee chair Neil Parish said: «Councils in the dozens of other English cities currently exceeding EU pollution limits must also be given the option of using such powers if their communities support action.»

A Volkswagen senior manager has been sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison for concealing software that was used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.

There is longstanding evidence that exposure to high concentrations of air pollution increases the risk for several diseases including heart attacks and European Union (EU) statutory pollution limits are based on absolute upper values.

When Jacques Chirac, president of France, visited Beijing six weeks after the Athens Olympics, pollution limited visibility to 600 feet, forcing the cancellation of a celebratory air show by French pilots and prompting an official warning for residents of the city to spend the weekend indoors.

China's government admits that 19.4 % of arable land is contaminated with heavy metals, while the region which is high enough to produce hardy and nutritious roots, the Yunnan region, is exempt from many national pollution limits.

According to Johns Hopkins scientists up to nearly 8000 lives would have been saved annually if President Obama backed the EPA's strongest recommendations for ozone pollution limits.

VW had marketed these cars as using clean diesel technology that allowed owners to meet strict pollution limits while also achieving a higher fuel economy.

The NRDC plan proposes tailoring pollution limits to the specific energy mix of each individual state; giving utilities flexibility to determine the most cost - effective way to hit the target and would save families on their electric bills by providing incentives to increase energy efficiency.

They support immediate reductions of global warming pollution and strongly favor mandatory pollution limits on power plants, industry and refineries,» said David Tuft, campaign director for the NRDC's Climate Center.

The first pollution limits under the Clean Power Plan will take effect in 2022, more than five years from now.

Among the allegations cited in the notice letter are exceedances and misreporting of discharges of manganese, iron, total suspended solids and pH. The groups and local residents bringing these claims cite a total of over 20,000 incidences of these three companies either exceeding permit pollution limits, failing to submit reports, or falsifying the required monitoring data.

EPA said the Mica - Rahall bill would «significantly undermine» the agency's role of overseeing states» establishment and enforcement of water pollution limits and permits.

As such, the bill could block the EPA from using the best available scientific evidence to set pollution limits or develop ambient air quality standards.

In December 2012, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., dismissed a suit by the company behind a proposed new coal plant in Texas that sought to block new carbon dioxide pollution limits on power plants proposed by the EPA.

Coal from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming tends to be low in sulfur, for example, allowing power plants to burn more without exceeding local pollution limits.

A lot of areas around London already exceed their annual air pollution limits so it is unsurprising there is concern an airport development will only exacerbate things.

Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said: «It's shocking that pollution limits in London have already been breached for 2017 — this shows the extent of the public health crisis we are facing.

Recently, the EU has threatened to put Britain before the European Court of Justice and handed the Government a final warning to comply with air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

Following religious services, participants signed «Love Creation» valentines addressed to their senators in Washington, urging them to support the Environmental Protection Agency in enacting carbon pollution limits on new power plants.

We were instrumental in achieving the establishment of air pollution limits for ships near the coasts of the U.S. and Canada, which prohibit the use of dirty bunker fuel — unless alternative compliance methods are employed, such as shorepower or other pollution reduction technologies.

Legal air pollution limits for the whole year have been broken just five days into 2017 in London, figures show.

«It's shocking that pollution limits in London have already been breached for 2017,» said Penny Woods, at charity the British Lung Foundation.

All will be ultra-clean, meeting upcoming Euro 5 and Euro 6 pollution limits.

In December 2012, NRDC issued a report showing one way to make major reductions in carbon pollution at lower cost with bigger benefits than many would expect by using the Clean Air Act to set state - specific targets for carbon pollution limits.

Countries that exceed their pollution limits may buy AAUs from those that enact deeper emission cuts to cover discharges.

Two polls this year found that 70 percent of Americans approve of establishing carbon pollution limits, while the more recent of the two — commissioned by The Washington Post — found that 63 percent supported the limits even if implementing them would cost people $ 20 extra a month in energy costs.

When the Clean Air Act was written in 1970, the bill's author, Edmund Muskie, had exempted existing power plants from the new pollution limits — he figured the older plants would get retired soon anyway.

With the Clean Power Plan in place, we are defending its carbon pollution limits and making its goals a reality.

And on April 28, members of the European Union (EU) approved new air pollution limits for large combustion plants that will require utilities to invest in new technology to retrofit coal plants, limit operations to 1,500 hours a year, or shutter facilities by 2021.

Producing a respectable offset is becoming more and more difficult in a world where we are rapidly approaching our pollution limits.

The Kyoto framework, which imagined that carbon pollution limits could be the primary driver of the complete transformation of the global energy economy, has irretrievably failed.

Environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today (Monday) suggested they were moving closer to a deal on air pollution limits.

Campaigners have welcomed the EU's adoption of new air pollution limits that could significantly reduce toxic emissions from Europe's dirtiest power plants.

Effective air pollution limits could save more than 20,000 lives every year, yet some national governments are threatening to veto EU measures to tackle toxic pollution.

But even as we push for pollution limits and a conversion to clean energy, we help global communities prepare for an already changing climate.

The recent announcement of more stringent air pollution limits and reforms to the EU emissions trading system highlight the risk in a pro-coal strategy.

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, Washington voters and legislators in recent years have considered — but not approved — binding carbon pollution limits and a price on carbon pollution.

The pathways outlined in these state issue briefs were selected to show that EPA's carbon pollution limits are readily achievable.